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Re: Compile-time optimization of mathfn(CST) ?

From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
To: jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:17:42 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Compile-time optimization of mathfn(CST) ?
References: <200403251320.i2PDKq6n021654@caip.rutgers.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403251613090.11946@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

 > From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk>
 > 
 > [...] or precise CPU stepping seems a bad idea.  (The dependence on
 > the CPU version, where the host library uses CPU instructions for
 > the operation but not all CPUs necessarily produce bitwise
 > identical results, would in particular be liable to produce
 > nonreproducibility for distcc compiles etc. - I don't think people
 > using compile farms necessarily use physically identical processors
 > on all machines.)

Ok I buy this one, GCC should be deterministic on compile farms.

So I await GMP.  Sigh.

--
Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu

References:
- Compile-time optimization of mathfn(CST) ?
  - From: Kaveh R. Ghazi
- Re: Compile-time optimization of mathfn(CST) ?
  - From: Joseph S. Myers

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